Last Updated on October 15, 2026 by Karl Thompson
I’ve been writing ReviseSociology since 2014. The A-level material on this site is written by me, drawing on eighteen years of teaching A-level sociology and eight as an AQA examiner.
My background
I hold an MA in Sociology and Social Research, completed in 2000. I taught A-level sociology from 2000 to 2018: eighteen years in the classroom, working with students across the full ability range and through two full specification changes.
I spent twelve years as an AQA examiner, marking all three A-level papers, including the first two years of the current 7192 specification. So the model answers on this site and in the revision bundles are written by someone who has marked the papers students are still sitting, against the mark scheme examiners use.
I no longer teach or examine. I now work as a caseworker for a Member of Parliament, but I’ve kept ReviseSociology going throughout, and I continue to update it against the current specification and each year’s papers.
What’s on this site
ReviseSociology covers every compulsory topic on the AQA A-level sociology specification and five of the eight Paper 2 options: education, families and households, beliefs in society, crime and deviance, the media, culture and identity, globalisation and global development, research methods, and social theory. There are also model answers to 10, 20 and 30 mark questions, and breakdowns of past papers.
Everything here is free. If you want it organised into something you can revise from directly, I sell revision bundles: packs of notes, mind maps and exam questions with full answers. Crime and Deviance and the research methods notes are fully updated for 2026, and the rest are being rebuilt by the end of March 2027.
For more of an overview of the site, see About ReviseSociology.
A note on how this is written
The A-level material (topic notes, model answers and exam guidance) is written by me. Some of the wider commentary uses AI assistance in drafting, and everything is reviewed by me before it goes up.
Get in touch
karlthompson30@gmail.com. I read everything, and if you spot something wrong or out of date, please tell me.